Monday, December 5, 2022

Fun and Entertainment


I spent almost a day in bed (backache). Read an old textbook on matrices and reflected that this math area was developed 150 years ago when French and Scotts started to think about the properties of numbers. The next generation discovered that the universe strictly follows maths, from the temperature of faraway celestial bodies to rockets to the moon. The enigma of Newton's falling bodies has been solved: there are no gravitons nor gravitational waves, it is mass that changes the curvature of the spacetime membrane. As I walk on this membrane, my mass bends it. Illustration: Cirque du Soleil. All that follows numerical relations. I think we live in and are a mathematical simulation. It seems totally pointless but beautiful. Are we also just for fun and entertainment? 

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